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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Book 5 in the Detective Dan Reilly series. Stand alone or read within the series. Loved every second- didn’t want it to end
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was really good and sucked me in from the first page! Even though I kind of figured out who did it, there were tons of other twists that caught me by surprise. Thank you to Netgalley & the publisher for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved this book. All the books in this series have been fantastic and always manage to suck me in. The Night of the Party can easily be read as a stand alone, it is the reoccurrence of the Detective Dan Riley that makes it a series. But I do recommend reading them all abs they are all such great stories.
17 year old Libby is murdered near her home, on the night that her parents are having a dinner party. Her mother, Evie, thinks her daughter was an angel and nobody would want her dead. Boy is she is for a shock. No spoilers but you won’t believe the twists in this. So clever and well done.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my advanced copy of this book to read.
17 year old Libby is murdered near her home, on the night that her parents are having a dinner party. Her mother, Evie, thinks her daughter was an angel and nobody would want her dead. Boy is she is for a shock. No spoilers but you won’t believe the twists in this. So clever and well done.
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for my advanced copy of this book to read.
Trust me to start a series on book 5. Luckily it read really well as a standalone, but I’m looking forward to going back and reading from the start. Especially as not only was it completely gripping I may have just a teeny weeny bit of a crush on Detective Dan.
I’m always in awe of crime writers, the amount of planning that must have gone into this is insane. It all starts fairly innocuously with a husband and wife holding a dinner party for their close friends, with Evie the mother cajoling her daughter Libby into playing the piano for them. Libby comes across as a dutiful daughter who is studious and sweet. That is the first deception as she is anything but. She is a master at manipulation and in a few hours she will be brutally murdered.
From then on more and more comes to light and nobody is as innocent as they appear. Imagine a small snowball as the first lie and as it starts rolling it collects even more until it becomes so big it will cause an avalanche and many lives will be destroyed.
I loved all the characters in this, and the author has absolutely nailed narcissistic sociopaths. Yes that’s plural as there is more than one and they are both as ghastly as each other. Evie, although she made many mistakes in parenting, you can’t help but feel sorry for her as her eyes are opened to the truth.
I did actually guess the culprit, which is very rare, but little did I know that a letter in the final pages would be the biggest twist for me. This book was a genuinely nice surprise and I can’t wait to read more.
I’m always in awe of crime writers, the amount of planning that must have gone into this is insane. It all starts fairly innocuously with a husband and wife holding a dinner party for their close friends, with Evie the mother cajoling her daughter Libby into playing the piano for them. Libby comes across as a dutiful daughter who is studious and sweet. That is the first deception as she is anything but. She is a master at manipulation and in a few hours she will be brutally murdered.
From then on more and more comes to light and nobody is as innocent as they appear. Imagine a small snowball as the first lie and as it starts rolling it collects even more until it becomes so big it will cause an avalanche and many lives will be destroyed.
I loved all the characters in this, and the author has absolutely nailed narcissistic sociopaths. Yes that’s plural as there is more than one and they are both as ghastly as each other. Evie, although she made many mistakes in parenting, you can’t help but feel sorry for her as her eyes are opened to the truth.
I did actually guess the culprit, which is very rare, but little did I know that a letter in the final pages would be the biggest twist for me. This book was a genuinely nice surprise and I can’t wait to read more.
A great psychological thriller that comes with unexpected twists, lies, betrayals and secrets that will leave you speechless!
The plot is well crafted and well written. The writing style with multiple POVs makes the story even easier to follow which makes this book was impossible for me to put down. I finish this book in one day!
Most of the characters here are not as innocent as you think. Especially Libby. She's not the perfect golden child everybody think. I was shocked about the revelation regarding Libby's real character.
She's a skilled liar and very manipulative. The way she used people to do her biddings and even the length she goes through to achieve it just gives me goosebumps.
I feel sorry for Evie finding out the secrets that her child have been keeping from her all this time. Her POV was heart breaking.
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To be honest, I didn't know that this story was a part of a series called Detective Daniel Rylie series. Nonetheless, I was still able to enjoy this story as a standalone without reading the previous books on this series.
There are some parts that manage to surprise me and some things I manage to guess. Several characters in this story have secrets and the motive to kill Libby which makes it slightly more difficult to point out who actually did the killing that night.
Overall, this is a very quick and enjoyable read! This book is such a page turner with every secret being revealed throughout the story!
I think I'll be reading the other books from this series in the future since I enjoy the detective POV in this book!
Special thanks to Netgalley, Anna-Lou Weatherley and Bookouture for granting me this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review!
The plot is well crafted and well written. The writing style with multiple POVs makes the story even easier to follow which makes this book was impossible for me to put down. I finish this book in one day!
Most of the characters here are not as innocent as you think. Especially Libby. She's not the perfect golden child everybody think. I was shocked about the revelation regarding Libby's real character.
She's a skilled liar and very manipulative. The way she used people to do her biddings and even the length she goes through to achieve it just gives me goosebumps.
I feel sorry for Evie finding out the secrets that her child have been keeping from her all this time. Her POV was heart breaking.
Spoiler
I don't know if the incident that happen when Libby was five actually messed up her brains and makes her acts like a sociopath or maybe it was something to do with genetic since her father is not exactly father of the year either. Because Tom, Libby's father was just the same as his daughter. The apple really didn't fall VERY FAR from the tree.To be honest, I didn't know that this story was a part of a series called Detective Daniel Rylie series. Nonetheless, I was still able to enjoy this story as a standalone without reading the previous books on this series.
There are some parts that manage to surprise me and some things I manage to guess. Several characters in this story have secrets and the motive to kill Libby which makes it slightly more difficult to point out who actually did the killing that night.
Overall, this is a very quick and enjoyable read! This book is such a page turner with every secret being revealed throughout the story!
I think I'll be reading the other books from this series in the future since I enjoy the detective POV in this book!
Special thanks to Netgalley, Anna-Lou Weatherley and Bookouture for granting me this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review!
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
A gripping and intense read. A dinner party turns sour when the hosting couple’s daughter is found murdered. Their are plenty of suspects to go around, as she wasn’t as innocent as she seemed. This was an intense, gripping read. I felt like I was watching a crime show, think Broadchurch style. I loved the author’s pacing, I enjoyed the first person POV from the detective, making him seem like the only reliable narrator in the group. Ultimately, this was a wonderful, thrilling book that kept me on my toes and had a great twist ending.